What is on your workbench Tinkerers?
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- walkingtiger
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Re: What is on your workbench Tinkerers?
Wow! You are truly talented, I can’t believe accomplishing a build like this! The board looks beautiful, and I love the sticker on the bookend headstock! Dream guitar right there, I hope it brings lots of inspiration!
- Nick
- The Artist Formerly Known As nightraven
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Re: What is on your workbench Tinkerers?
Here's a little so-called restoration jobby that I did to a mystreated Jumbo Tone Bender a few weeks ago. It was kinda temperamental when it came to me, and it had a replacement footswitch that was wired to be very much non-true bypass. Along with fixing it, I decided to also redo the whole wiring to hopefully make it more presentable and future-proof. Couldn't resist sticking in an old vintage-correct footswitch though ![bad teeth :badteeth:](./images/smilies/badteeth.gif)
A chunk of the PCB had been broken off right where the power rail sat, and so a previous tech has basically globbed a blob of solder in place and left the battery wire precariously hanging off it. I removed all of that, fitted a jumper wire across the break, and then reconnected the battery wire to an unused part of the power rail. I also fitted some PCB terminals to hook the wiring up to rather than connecting the wires straight to the board. This surely doesn't make any difference to the majority of the wiring, but it hopefully gives a bit of strain relief to the battery wire (and I like to think that it's also just good practice that they should've done at the factory!)
Anyway, here's the before:
![Image](https://i.imgur.com/jx8hlv0.jpg)
... and here's the after:
![Image](https://i.imgur.com/jai5SaG.jpg)
![Image](https://i.imgur.com/k74Qg32.jpg)
![bad teeth :badteeth:](./images/smilies/badteeth.gif)
A chunk of the PCB had been broken off right where the power rail sat, and so a previous tech has basically globbed a blob of solder in place and left the battery wire precariously hanging off it. I removed all of that, fitted a jumper wire across the break, and then reconnected the battery wire to an unused part of the power rail. I also fitted some PCB terminals to hook the wiring up to rather than connecting the wires straight to the board. This surely doesn't make any difference to the majority of the wiring, but it hopefully gives a bit of strain relief to the battery wire (and I like to think that it's also just good practice that they should've done at the factory!)
Anyway, here's the before:
![Image](https://i.imgur.com/jx8hlv0.jpg)
... and here's the after:
![Image](https://i.imgur.com/jai5SaG.jpg)
![Image](https://i.imgur.com/k74Qg32.jpg)
- phidias
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Re: What is on your workbench Tinkerers?
Nice job!
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- simonm
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Re: What is on your workbench Tinkerers?
I've been working on a commission this week - the brief was to make a Mk1 TB with all vintage parts, and no tweaks or concessions to modernity, with TI 2G381s and a Mullard OC75 - looks and sounds cool i think! quick rough vid in the Good Fuzzy Sounds thread.
![Image](https://i.imgur.com/sfRnsVc.jpg)
replicases wedge should be delivered tomorrow!
![Image](https://i.imgur.com/sfRnsVc.jpg)
replicases wedge should be delivered tomorrow!
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- spofftastic
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- walkingtiger
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Re: What is on your workbench Tinkerers?
Fine selection! Would love to hear it
- simonm
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Re: What is on your workbench Tinkerers?
sounds like a Tone Bender :)
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- HorseyBoy
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Re: What is on your workbench Tinkerers?
You're getting pretty good at this tinkering stuff, Nick. Must be huffing a lot of solder fumes.Nick wrote: ↑Sun Jun 02, 2024 1:40 pm Here's a little so-called restoration jobby that I did to a mystreated Jumbo Tone Bender a few weeks ago.
![bad teeth :badteeth:](./images/smilies/badteeth.gif)
![freakout :freakout:](./images/smilies/freakout.gif)
![smashed :smashed:](./images/smilies/smashed_laughing.gif)
- Nick
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Re: What is on your workbench Tinkerers?
Thanks Horsey! I'm being very careful with the fumes so that the fire alarm in my apartment block doesn't go offHorseyBoy wrote: ↑Mon Jun 03, 2024 9:37 pmYou're getting pretty good at this tinkering stuff, Nick. Must be huffing a lot of solder fumes.Nick wrote: ↑Sun Jun 02, 2024 1:40 pm Here's a little so-called restoration jobby that I did to a mystreated Jumbo Tone Bender a few weeks ago.![]()
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